Guidelines and Templates

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics.
Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.
To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors,
including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgements section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical
norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly
before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or
simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings.
Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and
templates provided in the documents below,
which are also the templates for the camera-ready submission. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

Submission: It is recommended that Regular Papers are submitted for review with around 8 to 10 pages, with the appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or more than 13 pages will be automatically rejected.

Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Regular Papers may be accepted as either Full Papers or Short Papers.

Presentation: Regular Papers classified as Full Papers are awarded a 30’ minutes slot for an oral presentation at the conference.
Regular Papers classified as Short Papers are given either a 20’ minutes slot for an oral presentation or assigned to present at a Poster Session.
Authors who have been assigned an oral presentation, either Full or Short, may however also choose to present at a Poster Session instead, should they prefer it.

Publication: Regular Papers classified as Full Papers will be assigned a 12-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, while Regular Papers classified as Short Papers have an 8-page limit.
If absolutely necessary, authors may increase the total number of pages by a maximum of 4 extra pages, for an additional fee.
The total number of pages to consider is the number obtained after the paper has been correctly formatted according to the appropriate template.
The Conference Proceedings will be published under an ISBN number by SCITEPRESS and include final versions of all accepted papers, adjusted to satisfy reviewers’ recommendations.
They will be obtainable on paper and CD-Rom support, and made available for online consultation at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
Online publication is exclusive to papers which have been both published and presented at the event.

Submission: Position Papers should be submitted for review with around 6 or 7 pages, with the appropriate font size and page format, including references, tables, graphs, images and appendices. Submissions with less than 4 pages or more than 9 pages will be automatically rejected.

Acceptance: After a double-blind peer review, qualifying Position Papers will be accepted as Short Papers.

Presentation: Position Papers are given either a 20’ minutes slot for an oral presentation or assigned to present at a Poster Session.
Authors who have been assigned an oral presentation may however also choose to present at a Poster Session instead, should they prefer it.

Publication: Position Papers will be assigned a 6-page limit in the Conference Proceedings, which will include final versions of all accepted papers,
adjusted to satisfy reviewers’ recommendations. If absolutely necessary, authors may increase the total number of pages by a maximum of 4 extra pages, for an additional fee. The total number of pages to consider is the number obtained after the paper has been correctly formatted according to the appropriate template.
The Conference Proceedings will be published under an ISBN number by SCITEPRESS, on paper and CD-Rom support, and made available for online consultation at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.
Online publication is exclusive to papers which have been both published and presented at the event.

Templates and Formating

Using these templates is strongly advised to all authors submitting a paper for reviewing and mandatory for those uploading the camera-ready version of their papers.
Failure to produce correctly formatted camera-ready submissions may result in the paper’s exclusion from the Proceedings.